# Candidate Says She Prayed and Her Neighbor Got Murdered Like That's a Good Thing **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 10, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155 "2021-11-10T23:05:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/21 "2021-11-11T14:39:25Z")
Was that the hurricane that he called on (in Jesus’ name) to smite Orlando because Disney World wasn’t insufficiently down on teh gayz? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/22 "2021-11-11T15:18:14Z")
And didn’t that hurricane or a following one hit Virginia Beach, pretty much right where Robertson’s church/compound is? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/23 "2021-11-11T15:27:20Z")
Sure, but that was just God testing Pat, ala Job. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/24 "2021-11-11T15:32:22Z")
Can’t we cancel people like this? It’s done to anyone else who is someone’s PITA. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/25 "2021-11-11T20:49:25Z")
> [@digs](#): > > And didn’t that hurricane or a following one hit Virginia Beach, pretty much right where Robertson’s church/compound is? I’m not sure which hurricane it was, but you have the incident right. (Later on, when [suitcases of body parts](https://blog.beanybux.com/human-remains-found-in-suitcase-near-virginia-beach/) washed up in Virginia Beach and environs, my initial reaction was to ask whether Pat Robertson had asked in Jesus’ name that Disney World be smitten by suitcases of body parts. See you in Hell.) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/26 "2021-11-11T20:56:41Z")
As Groucho tells it, something like this happened to the Marx Brothers during their vaudeville days, after an unscrupulous theatre owner paid their entire salary in pennies: > …one of my brothers said, in words much stronger than the following, “What a dirty trick! I hope his damned theatre burns to the ground!” > He got his wish. The next morning, the local paper reported that a huge conflagration had destroyed the theatre in the town we had just played. It isn’t often that one is lucky enough to call down a curse on someone and then see it fulfilled within twenty-four hours. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/27 "2021-11-11T21:33:12Z")
And that’s why you don’t fuck with Harpo. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/28 "2021-11-11T22:11:54Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > And that’s why you don’t fuck with Harpo. Oh, is that why all those women were running away from him? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/29 "2021-11-11T23:23:52Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > That said… as an agnostic/atheist (depending on the day) should some ‘Christian God-Botherer Bible Thumper’ cross my property in the middle of the night with deadly intent, I’d have no problem spraying them down with a metal weed-killer can filled with gasoline and frying them straight to Hell. Creativity points there for sure. But be careful you don’t start a major wildfire… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/30 "2021-11-12T04:11:19Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > Jesus is her personal hitman. Almost as good as this: [Jesus Built My Hotrod (Redline/Whiteline Version) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXrLKplLAhM&t=121s) ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/32 "2021-11-12T04:28:39Z")
> [@digs](#): > > And didn’t that hurricane or a following one hit Virginia Beach, pretty much right where Robertson’s church/compound is? I suspect that Pat Robertson has negotiated with God over more than one hurricane, but this may have been the one that Dave Barry talked about. According to Barry’s account, when the hurricane that Pat commanded to smite teh gays changed direction and headed straight for him instead, Pat blamed the fact that God was no longer steering at the time (presumably the Creator of the Universe had moved on to more pressing concerns). ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/33 "2021-11-12T13:17:53Z")
Jee-zus, indeed! Dan ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/34 "2021-11-12T15:11:43Z")
I thought Jesus really only fought vampires, not witches. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/35 "2021-11-12T15:35:16Z")
I thought it wasn’t so much Jesus fighting vampires as it was the stick he was nailed to. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/36 "2021-11-12T15:57:18Z")
> **[Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Vampire_Hunter)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter is a 2001 Canadian horror parody film from Odessa Filmworks which deals with Jesus Christ's modern-day struggle to protect the lesbians of Ottawa, Ontario, from vampires with the help of Mexican wrestler El Santo (based on El Santo, Enmascarado de Plata, and played by actor Jeff Moffet, who starred as El Santo in two other Odessa Filmworks productions). > This film earned an honorable mention in the Spirit of Slamdance... ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/37 "2021-11-13T15:26:26Z")
Jesus Chrysler drives a Dodge. https://www.youtube.com/embed/RtZ8NMFhsG0?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDRtZ8NMFhsG0 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/38 "2021-11-14T03:19:22Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Jesus Chrysler drives a Dodge. > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtZ8NMFhsG0&list=RDRtZ8NMFhsG0&start\_radio=1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtZ8NMFhsG0&list=RDRtZ8NMFhsG0&start_radio=1) But his normal car is a Honda. He and his disciples were together in one Accord. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/39 "2021-11-14T06:31:01Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > But his normal car is a Honda. He and his disciples were together in one Accord. IIRC, he was pretty clear that it was his Father’s Accord. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/40 "2021-11-14T14:12:12Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > IIRC, he was pretty clear that it was his Father’s Accord. I always thought that it was his father’s [Galaxie](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/1963_Ford_Galaxie_sedan_2_--_06-05-2010.jpg)… ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155/41 "2021-11-14T15:30:36Z")
With all thirteen of them in there it must’ve been the first clown car. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-says-she-prayed-and-her-neighbor-got-murdered-like-thats-a-good-thing/954155.md?page=3)